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“Your wallet is likely to take a small hit this year and next — but it could see some improvement by 2017.”
Even so, the Island stands to lose hundreds more jobs this year.
Offering the “brutal facts” from the 2015-16 Budget — plus some tentative pro...
DATE: Apr 29, 2015
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Jonathan Bell
The Paget sub-post office was closed by Government without any union consultation, fuelling “extremely low” morale among postal workers.
Branding the surprise move disrespectful, Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, pointed out t...
DATE: Apr 28, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
“If you’re Bermudian, you look out for one another — because you’re proud to be Bermudian,” is a credo for addiction counsellor Sandy Butterfield.
The head of the drug treatment service Focus fondly traces her ethos back to the Girl Guides, the Sea R...
DATE: Apr 23, 2015
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Board of Governors at CedarBridge Academy is falling short on the school’s educational priorities, according to a group of longstanding staff who approached The Royal Gazette with their concerns.
The staff members — including parents and educator...
DATE: Apr 22, 2015
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A penniless, single mother of three threatened with jail over a hospital bill has spoken out over the “senseless, harassing, bullying” procedures used to chase down debts.
Once reasonably employed through an office job, she was made redundant. Four y...
DATE: Apr 22, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A striking Bermuda watercolour by the lauded American artist Andrew Wyeth, who appears to have forgotten that he had painted it, is soon to go on display at a museum in the United States.
“On the arts scale of things, this is as big as it gets,” sai...
DATE: Apr 21, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man accused of a hit-and-run while impaired appeared this morning in Magistrates’ Court.
Patrick Richardson Jr, 26, of Duck’s Puddle, Hamilton Parish was not required to enter a plea, as his charges are indictable and must be heard before the Supre...
DATE: Apr 21, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man who did a double-take on sight of Police and then fled has ended up in Magistrates’ Court on a cannabis charge.
Nickell Smith, 22, of My Lord’s Bay, Hamilton Parish, was caught with 6.4g of the drug on July 18 last year.
Police on patrol along ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An elderly taxi driver is off the road for a year and a half after pleading guilty to driving while impaired.
Neville Smith, 73, apologised to Magistrates’ Court, saying that he had never run into trouble before and that he had paid for the damage ca...
DATE: Apr 21, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Families sending their children to boarding schools in Britain are being offered a summer camp to help young students to get acclimatised to boarding life.
Educational consultant Jim Hewer, who arrives on the Island next week, is keen to speak with p...
DATE: Apr 20, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell